THE HORSE - BO JACK HORSEMAN
REPRESENTATIONAL OBJECT
TEAM : Arsenios Zachariadis, Hsiao-Chiao Peng
THE HORSE
Two modalities and Cloning: the start of the project is the Laruelleian non-correlationism and the concept of proxies and cloning. The project focuses on the relations between the prototype and the representation, between the physical and the digital. As seen in Ancient Greek and Hellenistic Sculpture, the form of the horse head operates as a prototype trying to mimic the power and stability of the real horse. After exanimating multiple artifacts of sculptural horse heads one can note specific characteristics that do not support the idea of a direct copy or one-to-one translation from one period to the next. The artists, rather than attempting to mimic and reproduce successful examples that previous craftsmen created, rather adapt the work to current sensibilities. Ancient artifacts have provided successful examples and have operated as the “One” or the prototype. However each technician added or removed parts according to his talents, his aesthetics, and his skills.
The machine vision of the prototype and the new way of understanding the prototype as a combination of different parts is the main subject of the project. Through advance technics of representation in 3D and 2D environment the prototype is represented by its own image which has its own authentic and unique characteristics, introducing a new kind of prototype. In this situation the image ( or the parts ) of the initial object become new object reflecting some properties of the “one” but the same time having their own ontologies in spatial representation.
The projection of the image of a marble horse head of Parthenon on a piece of marble introduces a new kind of perceiving a well known artifact. The variety of the new representational images of the piece introduce new relations between the parts both from a spatial point of view and a new investigations in materiality through shadow and light.
